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J. B PRBNGHL HANDLE POR FILBSANDOTHEB, TOOLS. Nq. 283,045.

lPatented Nov. 6, 1883.

l l INVENTOR: Y

body of the handle, made voi" wood or other ferrule, I).

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'HANDLE FOR FlLES AND OTHER TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,045, dated November 6, 1883.

' rpplieation filed September 15, 1383. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l. JosIAH F. FRENCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Handles for Files and other Tools, of which the following is a specification. A'

My invention consists in so combining a hard-metal nut with a handle that by properly applying the same to the tang of a iile or other tool a thread will be out by the nut on the said tang, to which the handle will consequently be secured. n

In the accompanying drawings, `Figure l is a sectional view of my improved handle for files and other tools, Fig. 2, a section on the line 1 2; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 4, and Fig; 4 a modification of the handle.

Referring to Figs. 1,- 2, and 3, A is the ta pering tang of a tile or other tool, and B the available material, into which is driven the metalI tube D, provided in the present instance with aiiange, c, which bears against the end oi' the handle and against the usual A portion of the exterior of the tube, near the flange a, is made many-sided-octangular in the present instance; or it may be otherwise constructed to prevent it from turning in the wooden portion of the handle.

There is a threaded orifice in the outer end of the metal tube, and this end is hardened, so that when the handle is applied to the tang A and turned thereon a thread corresponding with that in thev oriiioe in the tube will be cut on the tang, to which the handle will stance bearing against the opposite inclined edges of the tang near the shoulders m. m; but it may be made to bear directly against these shoulders.l

It will be seen on reference to Fig. 2 that notched like an ordinary threading-die; but this is not essential to my invention, for a thread can be cut on the tapering tang if the threaded orifice is Without notches.

The end of the tube may be termed a threading-nut, vwhich serves the twofold purpose of cutting la thread on the tang and, through the medium of this thread, securing the *handle to the tool.

In Fig. 4 the threading-nut is a simple hardened block` of steel driven into achanlber formed in the wooden portion of the handle, the nut being many-sided, or otherwise formed to prevent it from turning in the said chamber, and the latter being filled with a plug, d, after the nut has been fitted to its place. of the handle is fitted and secured to a substantial projecting ferrnle, E, the interior of which is threaded and adapted to the exterior thread on a collar, F,'which bears against the shoulders m m of a file or other tool. The object of this collar, which forms part of the handle, is to regulate the distance between the end of the said handle, where it bears against the shoulders m m, and the threadingnut. rJhe collar is screwed into the ferrule before the handle is applied to the tang and manipulated to out athread on the same, after In this instance the wooden portion which the handle may be partly unscrewed from the tang and extended in length by unscrewing the collar, so thaton reapplying the handle it will bear against the shoulders on m before the Vnut reaches the end of the thread which it had previously formed onrthe tang.

The tang is in the present instance parallelly threaded, leaving the terminal portion plain-a feature which is described in the application led by Ine August 27, 1883, Serial No. 104,858, and which I consequently disclaim in this application. It may be remarked, however, that the nut and tang may be threaded on a slight taper without departing from my present invention. I, moreover, disclaim the internally-threaded tube extending to the end of the handle, as this forms the subject of an application for a patent filed by me July 2, 1883, Serial No. 99,803.

I do not desire to restrict myself to any specific inode of embedding a hard threadingnut in the handle. Y

I claim a-s my inventionw 1. A handle in which a body of wood or other available material is combined with a hard threading-nut embedded in or otherwise In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name attached to and prevented from turning in to this speeication in the presence of two 1o the said body of the handle, all substantially subscribing Witnesses.

JOSIAH F. FRENCH.

' as set forth.

2. The combination of a handle having a hard threading-nut and a ferrule, E, With a collar, F, adjustable on the ferrule, substantially as set forth.

Vitnesses: J OHN E. PARKER, HARRY SMITH. 

